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supposed to have belonged to one of the statues of this pediment, and 
presented by M. Charles Lenormant , 1846. 
No. 105. The torso of Nike Apteros, or Victory without wings, > 
who was represented in this manner by the Athenians to intimate that 
they held their gifts in perpetuity, and that she could not desert them. 
This goddess was represented driving the car of Minerva, on the west 
pediment; the car approached Minerva, as if to receive her into it, after 
her successful contest with Neptune. (69.) 
No. 105*. Cast of the head of the Victory without wings in the 
car of Minerva, in the western pediment of the Parthenon. Presented ' 
by the Count de Laborde, 1846. 
No. 106. A fragment of a group which originally consisted of La- 
tona with her two children, Apollo and Diana. This group was placed 
on the right side of the west pediment. All that remains in the fragment j 
before us, is the lap of Latona, with a small portion of the figure of the 
infant Apollo. (73.) 
4. Miscellaneous objects, Statues, Inscriptions, &e. 
No. 106*. Cast of the head of a female in fine workmanship, found 
in excavating for a building in Mercury Street, Athens, between the 
temple of Theseus and the ancient gate of the Peloponnesus. 
No. 107. The celebrated Sigean inscription, first published by 
Chishull, in his “ Antiquitates Asiatics,” and afterwards more cor¬ 
rectly by Chandler in his “ Inscriptiones Antiquse.” It is written in 
the most ancient Greek characters, and in the boustrophedon manner, 
that is to say, the lines follow each other in the same direction as the 
ox passes from one furrow to another in ploughing. The purport of 
the inscription is to record the presentation of three vessels, namely, a 
cup, a saucer or stand, and a strainer, for the use of the Prytaneum, or 
hall of justice, at Sigeum. The name of the donor was Phanodicus, the 
son of Hermocrates, and a native of Proconnesus. (199.) 
No. 108. A piece of the ceiling of the temple of Erechtheus at 
Athens. (299.) 
No. 109. The lower part, of a female statue covered with drapery. 
(299*.) 
No. 110. A piece of the shaft of an Ionic column, belonging to the 
temple of Erechtheus at Athens. (312.) 
No. 111. A colossal statue of Bacchus, from the choragie monu¬ 
ment of Thrasyllus, at Athens, e.c. 320. It is a sitting figure covered 
with the skin of a lion, and with a broad belt round the waist; it was 
originally placed on the summit of the edifice, at a height rather 
exceeding twenty-seven feet. (205.) 
No. 112. The capital, and a piece of the shaft of one of the Doric 
columns of the Parthenon. (2C7.) 
No. 113. An imperfect statue of a youth; of the size of life, and 
of the most exquisite workmanship. (306.) 
No. 114. A piece of the shaft of a column, belonging to the temple 
of Erechtheus at Athens. (304.) 
No. 115. Part of the jamb of a door, from the eastern side of the 
same temple. 
No. 116. Fragment of a leaf moulding, from the north side of the 
same temple. 
